Fewer known risk factors, but heightened risk of cardiovasculardisease in people with celiacdisease
, and stroke), the researchers drew on medical data supplied by UK Biobank participants.
Those with celiac disease were more likely to be women—56% vs. 71.5%—-and of white ethnicity—95% vs. 99%—-than those who didn't have the condition. This translates into a 27% heightened risk of cardiovascular disease for people with celiac disease compared with those who didn't have it, after accounting for a wide range of potentially influential lifestyle, medical, and cardiovascular disease factors.
They were also more likely to have a so-called ideal cardiovascular risk score , and less likely to have a poor risk score than people with celiac disease. But a number of autoimmune conditions are associated with a heightened risk of cardiovascular disease as a result of systemic inflammation, they point out.
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